Japanese Sweet Azuki Beans
Japanese Sweet Azuki Beans

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, japanese sweet azuki beans. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Japanese Sweet Azuki Beans is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Japanese Sweet Azuki Beans is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook japanese sweet azuki beans using 4 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Japanese Sweet Azuki Beans:
  1. Make ready Azuki beans (about 3/4 cup or 150 ml)
  2. Prepare Light brown or regular sugar (about 1/2 cup), more or less depending on taste
  3. Take Salt
  4. Get Ice water
Steps to make Japanese Sweet Azuki Beans:
  1. Soak beans overnight in a pot covered with an inch or two of water.
  2. The next day, heat the pot of beans until they are almost ready to boil.
  3. Meanwhile, prepare a big bowl of ice cold water, which you'll be throwing the beans in next. This will "shock" them and help crack the skin so they become softer easily when boiling.
  4. Drain off the hot water from the beans. Immediately throw them into the ice water.
  5. Drain beans and put back in pot. Pour in enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, then simmer on low for about 60 minutes until soft. Skim off any foam that rises while simmering. If the water gets low, add a little more.
  6. Once the beans are soft (they should be easily mashable), mix in the sugar. I used about 100g/half cup. But I recommend starting with less and adding a little at a time until it's sweet enough for you.
  7. Bring to a simmer again, making sure the sugar is dissolved. If it's too soupy, simmer off some of the liquid.
  8. That's it! You can optionally pour off some of the water and mash into a paste (called anko). Store it for up to week in the refrigerator, or freeze it along with the liquid.
  9. There are lots of ways to use and turn sweet azuki into yummy Japanese goodies: -eat over rice dumplings (dango 団子）or ice cream -use paste as spread for bread or baked inside sweet buns -Made into "zenzai" soup along with "mochi" (rice cakes). Search and explore the internets for more ideas ;)

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